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Moving on: There’s a buyer ahoy for Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley appears to have found a buyer for her Huguenot house in east London (David Bank/Getty)

She seemed to have it all — a stellar acting career, lucrative modelling
contracts, a rock-star husband — but there was one thing Keira Knightley
couldn’t do: sell her home. Last autumn, the Pirates of the Caribbean
actress put her Huguenot house in east London on the market for £3m. Despite
having four bedrooms set over six floors, a screening room in the basement
and an impeccable boozy pedigree — the grade II listed building was run as
the Three Tun Tavern in the late 18th century — it didn’t sell, so
Knightley, 29, cut the price to £2.75m.

Yet the Spitalfields property has now gone under offer to a buyer who
evidently fell for the idiosyncratic decorative flourishes, which include a
kitchen painted blue and a rolltop bath in the master bedroom. If it goes
for the asking price, the star — who last week said she wouldn’t want any
daughter she may have